Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)

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Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)
Studio album by XTC
Released	May 23, 2000
Genre	Pop rock
Length	50:54
Label	Cooking Vinyl
Producer(s)	Nick Davis
Professional reviews
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XTC chronology
Apple Venus Volume 1 (1999)	Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) (2000)

Wasp Star is an album by XTC. It is the second volume of the Apple Venus set. This volume is a return to the classic XTC sound, while the first volume had more of a big orchestral sound. It was recorded from April - December of 1999 at Idea Studios, Wiltshire, and Chipping Norton Studios, Oxfordshire, England. It was released on Cooking Vinyl/Idea Records on May 22, 2000.

It reached No. 108 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart, No. 2 on the CMJ Adult Album Alternative chart in the U.S.A. and No. 6 on the Indie Albums chart in the UK

"I'm The Man Who Murdered Love" was the single released from the album. It was originally proposed for the 1992 album Nonsuch. "Playground" was released as a single only in Japan and "Stupidly Happy" was a promotional-only single in the U.S.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 UK CD: COOKCD 194 2 Personnel 2.1 Musicians 2.2 Additional musicians 2.3 Production

[edit] Track listing

[edit] UK CD: COOKCD 194

All songs written by Andy Partridge, except where noted.

1. "Playground" – 4:17
2. "Stupidly Happy" – 4:13
3. "In Another Life" (Colin Moulding) – 3:35
4. "My Brown Guitar" – 3:51
5. "Boarded Up" (Moulding) – 3:23
6. "I'm The Man Who Murdered Love" – 3:44
7. "We're All Light" – 4:39
8. "Standing In For Joe" (Moulding) – 3:42
9. "Wounded Horse" – 4:11
10. "You And the Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful" – 4:18
11. "Church Of Women" – 5:06
12. "The Wheel And The Maypole" – 5:55

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Musicians

• Andy Partridge - vocals, guitar
• Colin Moulding - vocals, bass.

[edit] Additional musicians

• Chuck Sabo - drums (1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
• Prairie Prince - drums (2, 3, 4, 12)
• Matt Vaughn - programming
• Nick Davis - the more complicated keyboard parts
• Kate St. John - oboe
• Simon Gardner - flugelhorn
• Gavin Wright - 1st violin
• Patrick Kiernan - 2nd violin
• Peter Lale - viola
• Caroline Dale - cello
• Holly Partridge - backing vocals on "Playground"

[edit] Production

• Nick Davis - producer, mix
• Nick Davis, Alan Douglas, Barry Hammond, Haydn Bendall - recording engineers
• Simon Dawson - mix engineer
• Bob Ludwig - mastering

XTC
Andy Partridge | Colin Moulding Dave Gregory | Terry Chambers | Barry Andrews
Discography
Studio albums White Music (1978) | Go 2 (1978) | Drums and Wires (1979) | Black Sea (1980) | English Settlement (1982) | Mummer (1983) | The Big Express (1984) | Skylarking (1986) | Oranges and Lemons (1989) | Nonsuch (1992) | Apple Venus Volume 1 (1999) | Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) (2000) The Dukes of Stratosphear releases: 25 O'Clock (1985) | Psonic Psunspot (1987) | Chips from the Chocolate Fireball (1987) Compilations, instrumentals, demos, live and tribute albums: Take Away / The Lure of Salvage (1980) | Waxworks: Some Singles 1977-1982 (1982) | Beeswax: Some B-Sides 1977-1982 (1982) | The Compact XTC (1987) | Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80 (1990) | Rag and Bone Buffet: Rare Cuts and Leftovers (1990) | BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (1992) | Drums and Wireless: BBC Radio Sessions 77-89 (1994) | A Testimonial Dinner: The Songs of XTC (1995) | Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977-92 (1996) | Upsy Daisy Assortment (1997) | Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC Sessions (1998) | Homespun (1999) | Homegrown (2001) | Coat of Many Cupboards (2002) | Instruvenus (2002) | Waspstrumental (2002) | Apple Box 2005 Fuzzy Warbles albums: Fuzzy Warbles Volume 1 (2002) | Fuzzy Warbles Volume 2 (2002) | Fuzzy Warbles Volume 3 (2003) | Fuzzy Warbles Volume 4 | (2003) | Fuzzy Warbles Volume 5 (2004) | Fuzzy Warbles Volume 6 (2004) | Fuzzy Warbles Volume 7 (2006) | Fuzzy Warbles Volume 8 (2006) | Hinges (2006)
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